Incomplete books <sobs>

Philip Pullman needs to bloody get on with it

Although Serpantine is out on 15 October which bridges the gap between The Amber Spyglass and The Secret Commonwealth.

Patrick Rothfuss needs to crack on with the Third Name of the Wind book. I’ve read the first but am putting off the second because I know the third isn’t done.

And let’s not even get started on George RR Martin..!

I don't know anything about Victoria Scott but I think the end of a book should have a reasonable ending even if there are questions left unresolved to be explored in another book. I listened to the second in the Book of Dust series in abridged adaptation on Radio 4, and was horrified by the cliffhanger ending - wah, you can't do that to me!

I intend to read the print copies buit need to read The Amber Spyglass - I did listen to it on unabriged cassettes a long time ago. I will probably read the first of the Dust books (have heard some of it on R4 but not all) in print but will wait to read #2 again unitl #3 comes out. I just hope Philip Pullman lives into a very healthy old age (he's curerntly mid 70s I think)

Quite often it’s because the publishers don’t renew the contracts, if a series hasn’t been selling well enough. A series I’ve enjoyed has come to an abrupt end for that reason. A publisher will encourage a writer to stay with their more successful books, if they have more than one, or write something different. It’s also why some authors and characters survive long past the point the writer has shuffled off the mortal coil.

Paying a writer to write the next Robert B Parker novel or Ian Fleming thriller is, apparently, a better financial proposition, than nurturing a new writer. You can’t blame publishers for wanting to turn a profit, but it’s why good series disappear and series which should end, live on, long after their writers clearly want them dead and gone.

The public bear some of the blame for happily buying their hapless Dad the latest James Patterson as written by , every Xmas, whether the book itself is worth reading or not.

Mmmhmmmm. Apparently Philip Pullman hadn't even started writing the third Book of Dust when the second of the trilogy was published a couple of years ago! It sucks!